The difference between New Year's Day and Christmas New Year's Day and Christmas are not the same thing

Are New Year's Day and Christmas the same thing? What is the difference between New Year's Day and Christmas? Next, let’s do some simple science popularization.

The difference between New Year's Day and Christmas

Different time

1. New Year's Day is a traditional Chinese festival, which falls on January 1st of the Gregorian calendar every year. In the beginning, the New Year's Day in ancient times was based on the lunar calendar, and the New Year's Day dates in different dynasties were also different.
2. Christmas, one of the traditional Western festivals, falls on December 15th of the Gregorian calendar every year. With the changing times and the integration of Eastern and Western cultures, Christmas is becoming more and more popular in China.

Different origins

1. The word "New Year's Day" first appeared in ancient Egypt around 50,000 BC, and our Chinese New Year's Day first appeared in the "Book of Jin": "Emperor Zhuanxu took the first month of summer as the beginning, which was actually the spring of the New Year's Day."
2. Christmas is a Western religious festival that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. The Bible does not actually record the date of Jesus' birth. Christmas was established by later generations.

Different activities

1. In ancient times, celebrations, ceremonies and prayers were held every New Year's Day. Because the Spring Festival and New Year's Day fell on the same day in ancient times, the activities on New Year's Day are similar to our current Spring Festival activities, such as offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, dragon dancing, pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, etc.
2. Every Christmas, most Christian churches hold a mass (religious ceremony) on Christmas Eve, December 24th. Afterwards, like Westerners and Chinese, the family gathers together to have Christmas dinner, and then talk together, recall the good past, and pray for a better tomorrow.